Helen Mort

Division Street

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Produktbeschreibung

Border-land,our town of miraclesâ â â â Scabâ From the clash between striking miners and police to the delicate conflicts in personal relationships, Helen Mortâ s stunning debut is marked by distance and division.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 134mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 94g
• ISBN-13: 9780701186845
• ISBN-10: 0701186844
• Artikelnr.: 38261587

Autorenporträt

Helen Mort was born in Sheffield in 1985, and grew up in nearby Chesterfield. Five times winner of the Foyle Young Poets Award, she received an Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and won the Manchester Young Writer Prize in 2008. Her first collection, Division Street (2013), was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Costa Poetry Award, and won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. In 2014, she was named as a 'Next Generation Poet', the prestigious accolade announced only once every ten years, recognising the 20 most exciting new poets from the UK and Ireland. No Map Could Show Them (2016), her second collection, about women and mountaineering, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Helen has been the Wordsworth Trust Poet in Residence and the Derbyshire Poet Laureate and was named one of the RSL's 40 under 40 Fellows in 2018. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and lives in Sheffield. Black Car Burning was her first novel, and A Line Above the Sky is her first work of narrative memoir.